Rede Globo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁedʒi ˈɡlobu], Globe Network), or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings. Globo is the second-largest commercial TV network in annual revenue worldwide behind just of American Broadcasting Company and one of the largest producer of soap operas.

Globo is headquartered in the Jardim Botânico neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, where its news division is based. The network's main production studios are located at a complex dubbed Projac (short for "Jacarepaguá project"), located in Jacarepaguá, Barra da Tijuca. It is composed of 122 owned and affiliate television stations throughout Brazil plus its own international networks, TV Globo Internacional and TV Globo Portugal. In 2007, Globo moved its analog operations to high-definition television production for digital broadcasting.

In July 1957, Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek gave his approval to Radio Globo's request for opening a television channel. On December 30, 1957, the National Council of Telecommunication made public a decree which granted the channel four frequency in Rio de Janeiro to TV Globo Ltda. Globo then started preparing the beginning of its television broadcasting operations.

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Caio Blat de Oliveira (born on June 2, 1980 in São Paulo, São Paulo state) is a Brazilian stage, television and film actor. He studied Law at USP, one of the biggest universities in Brazil, but dropped out because of his acting career. He is married with Maria Ribeiro.

It was discovered at age 8, when he accompanied the sisters on a test at an advertising agency. The initiative takes it came from his mother. Okay, just cast in a commercial and thereafter became a familiar face in advertising. Have participated in at least 200 stores. Self-taught, never got a degree in theater arts, or finished the law course that began at the University of São Paulo. It also has significant work in television, film and theater.

In 2006 joined the cast of the remake of Sinhá Moça, as the abolitionist Mário, and also participated in two plays, Mordendo os Lábios and O Mundo é um Moinho. In 2007 he was in the overproduction of TV Amazônia, de Galvez a Chico Mendes, the rubber tapper as Xavier. He was also on display in the theater with the plays Os Dois Cavalheiros de Verona and Chorin. In that year, won the prize Paulistanos the Year for Best Actor, for his contribution to the city.

Marcelo França Adnet (born in Rio de Janeiro, September 5, 1981) is a Brazilian actor, comedian and VJ. He currently has two TV shows: Adnet ao vivo ("Adnet live"), and Comédia MTV ("MTV Comedy"). He was named by Época Magazine one of the 100 most influential Brazilians in 2009.

Adnet holds a degree in Journalism at PUC-Rio, but his career as a comedian began while in college when a friend, (Fernando Caruso), invited him to make an improvisation play, Z.E. Zenas Emprovisadas, which debuted in 2003 and is still thriving in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. He stands out for the imitations he often creates around famous personalities. He worked on Multishow cable television channel, owned by Rede Globo, before going to MTV as a result of his performance in Rockgol. Marcelo is married to his co-worker, MTV, VJ and comedian Dani Calabresa.

Silas Malafaia (born August 20, 1962) is a Brazilian televangelist. He is a very known televangelist and is married to Elizete Malafaia. This same program is also broadcast to more than 150 countries. In the United States, it is transmitted by CTNI, and in Europe and Africa, by TV Manasat 1. In 2009, he bought a private jet to travel. He is also a creationist.

See New York Times article of November 26, 2011 The Saturday Profile: Evangelical Leader Rises in Brazil's Culture Wars - By SIMON ROMERO

Silas Malafaia has recently attracted the most attention with his pointed verbal attacks on leaders of Brazil's movement for gay rights and proponents of abortion rights. Go to NY Times article

Chico Xavier, born Francisco de Paula Cândido (April 2, 1910 - June 30, 2002) was a popular medium in Brazil's spiritism movement who wrote 413 books, ostensibly using a process known as "psychography".

Xavier was born in the city of Pedro Leopoldo, State of Minas Gerais and is popularly known as "Chico Xavier" (Chico is the Portuguese nickname for Francisco). Heavily influenced by works of Allan Kardec, Xavier professed that his hand was guided by spirits. Xavier called his spiritual guide Emmanuel, who according to Xavier, lived in ancient Rome as Senator Publius Lentulus, was reincarnated in Spain as Father Damian, and later as a professor at the Sorbonne.

Xavier's work produced religious teachings, novels, and works of philosophy. His books sold an estimated 50 million copies, the profits of which were all channelled into charity work. In 1981 and 1982, he was nominated for the Nobel peace prize.

Xavier believed he was only a channel for the work of the spirits; that he was not able to produce any miracle, such as healing people, and he could not contact someone that was dead, unless that person was willing to be contacted. His appearances on TV talk shows in the late 1960s and early 1970s helped to establish Kardecist Spiritism as one of the religions professed in Brazil. Xavier's popularity remained unchanged in Brazil throughout his life. Despite health problems he kept working up to his death, on June 30, 2002 in Uberaba. In 2010, a movie biography entitled Chico Xavier was released in Brazil. Directed by Daniel Filho, the film dramatized Xavier's life.